Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Nicholas A. Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis

@NAChristakis

humannaturelab.net

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; and Connected. Luckily wed @ErikaChristakis

182062 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#3 0.020060 Heterodox Academy
#19 0.003709 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#22 0.004255 Harper's Open Letter
#46 0.001913 Persuasion Community
#63 0.002008 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#78 0.001089 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#101 0.001045 The Long Now Foundation
#128 0.000912 Moderate Conservatism
#156 0.000923 Social Epistemology
#169 0.000824 Progress Studies
#177 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#187 0.000590 Rationality
#227 0.000005 Fair Vote
#230 0.000444 Effective Altruism
#261 0.000496 Works in Progress
#313 0.000481 Bismark Analysis
#361 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#377 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#414 0.000005 Existential Risks
#443 0.000269 Ecomodernists
#487 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#508 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#528 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#556 0.000320 Climate Solutions
#746 0.000005 350.org
#936 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#1877 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#2913 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3170 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#4075 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4564 0.000003 Anarachists
#4788 0.000003 EFF
#5251 0.000008 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#50 0.001410 Hoover Institution
#185 0.000544 Council on Foreign Relations
#201 0.000690 Mercatus Center
#219 0.000552 American Enterprise Institute
#219 0.000552 National Bureau of Economic Research
#365 0.000287 RAND Corporation
#705 0.000213 Niskanen Center
#733 0.000005 Belfer Center
#837 0.000222 Earth Institute
#940 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1062 0.000124 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1138 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1357 0.000034 Berggruen Institute
#1608 0.000005 Cato Institute
#1721 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1790 0.000083 Brookings
#2663 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#5120 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5685 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5740 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#6056 0.000003 Hudson Institute

Journalism

#132 0.000701 Bloomberg Opinion
#186 0.000547 The Atlantic
#429 0.000389 Wall Street Journal
#465 0.000298 The Dispatch
#497 0.000374 The New York Times
#553 0.000192 Palladium Magazine
#628 0.000005 The Information
#705 0.000213 Foreign Policy
#902 0.000169 The Intercept
#1083 0.000003 Newsmax
#1098 0.000003 OANN
#1154 0.000005 Stat News
#1576 0.000005 The Verge
#1597 0.000025 The Economist
#1865 0.000073 Wired
#2023 0.000060 New Yorker
#2448 0.000033 The New York Post
#2668 0.000005 CNBC
#2854 0.000005 The Daily Beast
#3897 0.000003 Reuters
#3990 0.000005 Financial Times
#4613 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#4851 0.000018 Recode
#4881 0.000003 Techcrunch
#5097 0.000005 The Los Angeles Times
#5757 0.000016 Ars Technica
#6050 0.000005 VICE
#6395 0.000005 Washington Post

Venture Capital

#183 0.000664 Initialized Capital
#218 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#314 0.000005 Founders Fund
#396 0.000334 Khosla Ventures
#433 0.000331 A16Z
#765 0.000005 Accel
#1169 0.000005 Sequioa
#1730 0.000005 Y Combinator
#1879 0.000003 Bessemer
#2003 0.000075 My Climate Journey
#2335 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2564 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2982 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#3375 0.000003 Homebrew
#3963 0.000003 Village Global

Science

#253 0.000493 EconTwitter
#311 0.000562 Epidimiology Twitter
#474 0.000328 Epidemiology Journalism
#538 0.000212 Biotech
#804 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1120 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#8629 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

Crypto

#224 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#342 0.000431 Crypto Journalists
#389 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#422 0.000005 Polkadot
#749 0.000192 Crypto VC
#1162 0.000068 Crypto Investing
#1455 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1829 0.000060 IDEO Founder Collective
#1965 0.000020 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2464 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2653 0.000003 Cosmos
#2906 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3109 0.000021 Crypto Infrastructure
#3538 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#3931 0.000003 Ethereum

system

#1015 0.000175 Think Tanks
#4339 0.000070 Baseline
#8247 0.000071 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#1901 0.000073 Founders

Software Engineering

#359 0.000005 Rust
#1248 0.000003 Zig

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